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- 1984 (Proposal for Claus Oldenberg-gigantic sheep skull sculpture sited in agricultural landscape approx 10m high)
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- 1984 Proposal for public sculpture on the side of the Department of Environment building 10m
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- Proposal for 50m Oldenberg-type goat skull sculpture – shadow area to be ground that is burnt regularly
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- 1984 graphite and gouache on Arches paper, 37 x 29cm, Sold
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- 1984 graphite on Arches paper, 62 x 32cm, Sold
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- Proposal for sculpture on the side of an ‘Agricultural Bank’ head office approx. 8m high and 1m in advance of the wall, shadow sun-cast
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- Sheep with evidence of bullet hole through head Proposal for 4m sculpture for the interior chamber of War Memorial. Revealed in dimmed artificial light.
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- 1984 graphite on Arches paper 47 x 32cm, Sold
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- Proposal for 8m sculpture
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- 1984 oil and charcoal on primed Arches paper, 40 x 35cm, Sold
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- 1985 oil and ‘spakfilla’ on Masonite wall of house (4 Prince Street, Roma, South-West Queensland). 90 x 90cm, $6,000
Exhibited at Spring Hill Gallery, Brisbane in 1985, these are the remaining drawings from that period.
“Between 1984-86, I lived in Roma in South-Western Queensland, and assisted “one-teacher” schools from Dalby to Thargomindah during a severe drought. To break the drive, I’d sketch some of the animal victims of the drought or “road kill” on off-cuts of acid-free art paper, as an update of Nolan’s works from an earlier drought.” – Richard Dunlop, 1986
“I oscillate with my eyes backwards and forwards until I get the points of reference… the line is always wrong, never essential. My experience has taught me that you can only draw after you have painted for fifty years. Remember a child taking its first step, thinking “How far am I from my mother, will I fall?” Now having urged you to imagine that, I have adjusted your eyes like an optometrist. Now you can see.” – Oskar Kokoschka’s advice about starting a drawing offered to adult art students, 1962